Improvement in cokjst-hakvesters



'HOSPER & SELLERS.

Corn Hafvester.

No. 85,828 Patented J an. 12, 1869.

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NICHOLAS HosPERs; or ,PELLA, AND MORRIS SELLERS, OF KEO- KUK, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 85,828, dated J anaa/ry 12. 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HARVESTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, NICHOLAS Hosrnns, of Pella,

and county of Marion, and MORRIS SELLERS, of Kookuk, and county of Lee,both of the State of Iowa,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oorn-' Harvesters; and dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, and to the lettersof reference marked thereon.

The object of our invention is to so construct a machine that, beingdrawn by one or more horses through a field of standing corn, thecorn-will be brought into contact with a circular knife or rotary-movingknives, and cut off. At the same time, by an arrangement hereinafter tobe described, the corn-stalks are thrown upon an inclined plane, soarranged that at the option of-the person operating the machine, theymay be deposited at such points and in such quantities as may be deemedbest for shocking.

The nature of our invention consists in the mode of arranging theseveral parts of the machine to accomplish the objects above mentioned.

distance) at the front end of the base of the frame, and

from thence horizontally over the gearing and under the reel, andsloping at the rear. Atzthe end of said slope is the pivoted incline.N,which is flush with the slope, and forms part of its plane when in itsnormal position. This frame shields the major poition of the gearing,and prevents the clogging thereof by the particles of corn-stalks, 850.

The main wheel 0, upon which the machine is supported is of a sizesutiicicnt to come up flush with or.

above the roof of -the machine, and thereby act as shield to the gearingat this side.

On one side of the frame A, on the shaft B, a driving-wheel, G, isplaced, which imparts motion to an auxiliary shaft, D, by means of alarge cog-wheel, E,

' on the former'shaft, and pinion F, on the latter.

The shaft D has its bearings in the lower part of the frame A, asuitable distance in rear of the shaft B, and the said shaft D extendsbeyond the frame on the side opposite the one where the driving-"wheelis placed.

On this side is also a platform, G, which extends from the rear partofthe frame, and to this platform a smaller wheel, H, is attached.

The outer end of the shaft D has a bearing in an ear or standard on theplatlbrm G, and at this end of the said shaft is a mitre-wheel, I, whichgears into a pinion, J.

This pinion is secured to a small vertical shaft, which has its bearingsin angular bars above and below said platform, and to which a circularknife, K, is secured.

The circular knife K consists ofa circular plate, with a series ofknives on its periphery, which, by the means above described, obtains arapid rotary motion. The platform G, which, as already stated, extendsfrom the rear of the frame A, extends also forward along the side of theframe a suitable distance, but leaves a space between the frame anditself.

A guard, L, is attached to this side of the frame,

- between which and the said platform the corn-stalks The shaft P,'towhich the reel is secured, passes down through the frame, and is at itslower end provided with a small mitre-wheel, R, which gears into asimilar wheel, S, on the main shaft, the reel thus obtaining its motionfrom'the driving-wheel also.-

At the rear end of the .inclined plane N are two standards, T T, whichhold the stalks on thesame, until as many as are desired have collected,when the operator, from his seat U, at the front end of the machine,dumps the inclined plane,-tmd deposits the cornstalks in one pile,instead of scattering them all over the field, -as is .the case withother harvesters now in use.

which lever is connected by the rod a to the upper end of the plane N.

At the same time the standards, T T are turned downward, they beingpivoted to the lower end of the plane N, and connected, by curved arms7) b, to the rear end of the frame A, in such a manner that when theplane N is in proper position. to receive the cornstalks, they standupright, and prevent the stalks from falling off, but as soon as theoperator dumps the plane, they extend and allow the stalks to fall down.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The frame A, with its vertical, horizontal, and

set forth.

NICHOLAS HOSPERS.

Witnesses: MORRIS SELLERS.

CHARLES SELLERS, JOHN J). BAUGHMAN.

The dumping of the corn-stalks is accomplished by

